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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Indonesia will soon be able to offer Tourists and Residents with Google Street View

Google Inc(NASDAQ:GOOG) Street View will soon be
available in Indonesia according to a latest report that says the latest fleet
of cars to hit Indonesia’s roads will carry an unusual logo, which is already
familiar to customers – that of Google.

Indonesia’s
Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy and Google had jointly unveiled the
project on Friday and it is one of the latter’s biggest in Asia.
Custom Google cars fitted with cameras have already been deployed across the
country. The objective is that anyone with an Internet connection can get a
panoramic view of key cities through street-level images, not expected to be
ready for a few years.

After Singapore
and Thailand, Indonesia is
the third Southeast Asian country to get Google’s Street View service. The
target audience is tourists and other visitors and how they can check out
hotels and other attractions before planning itineraries, and also serve the
potential market within Indonesia’s
250 million people. Indonesia
is a beautiful place but infrastructure bottlenecks have made many destinations
like secluded beaches, pristine dive sites and legendary temples invisible to
visitors. Thanks to digital tools like these, hotels, tourism sites and
businesses can find out stores, locations and websites with ease.

There have been privacy issues elsewhere about
capturing Street View data that includes real-time panoramic images, allowing
anyone to scope out various locales without leaving their screens. This has
received mixed responses with some complaining about having their faces, car
license plate numbers and the like potentially exposed to millions. Google has
reassured them that with use of cutting edge technology, human faces will be
blurred and license plates will be unidentifiable even if street images are
clear and widely available.